8.3 Vocabulary

Poems that were set to music.

• Fables
• Lyric Poems
• Myths

Epic poem that tell the story of the last years of the Trojan War.

• Odyssey
• Iliad
• Aesop

Short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live.

• Fables
• Myths
• Lyric Poems

Most famous of all Greek heroes. Fought monsters and performed impossible tasks.

• Zeus
• Achilles
• Hercules

:  Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

• Saphho
• Homer
• Jason

:  Was famous for his fables that teach the reader lessons or give advice about life.

• Theseus
• Piesistratus
• Aesop

:  The greatest of all Greek warriors from the story the Iliad.

• Troy
• Achilles
• Hercules

:  King of the gods.

• Zeus
• Hera
• Hades

:  Famous female lyric poet. Her poems were beautiful and emotional.

• Hercules
• Aesop
• Sappho

:  Body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works.

• Mythology
• Myths
• Fables